US: More than a decade after he was acquitted of killing his former wife and her friend, OJ Simpson has written a book telling "how he would have committed the murders if he were the one responsible".
A few days before the book, called If I Did It, is published on November 30th, the Fox TV network will broadcast a two-hour interview with Simpson.
"OJ Simpson, in his own words, tells for the first time how he would have committed the murders if he were the one responsible for the crimes," the network said in a statement. "In the two-part event, Simpson describes how he would have carried out the murders he has vehemently denied committing for over a decade."
A criminal court acquitted Simpson of the 1994 killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, but a civil trial jury later found Simpson liable for both deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5 million in damages to the victims' families. The former football star, who now lives in Florida, has consistently denied the murders and has yet to pay any damages.
The National Enquirer, which broke the story about Simpson's book last month, reported that he has received a fee of $3.5 million from publisher Regan Books, an imprint of HarperCollins which, like Fox, is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. The Enquirer says the book is "so detailed and chillingly realistic - with OJ as the central figure - that it leaves no doubt it is a confession of what really happened".
In a preview clip on Fox's website, an off-screen interviewer says: "You wrote, 'I have never seen so much blood in my life'."
"I don't think any two people could be murdered without everybody being covered in blood," Simpson replies.
NBC said it had turned down the interview on grounds of taste.
Nicole Brown Simpson's sister, Denise Brown, condemned the book's publisher Judith Regan, who also conducted the television interview.
"We hope Ms Regan takes full accountability for promoting the wrongdoing of criminals and leveraging this forum and the actions of Simpson to commercialise abuse," Ms Brown said.
Lou Brown said he was not shocked to hear his former son-in- law was exploiting the tragedy.